Clerodendrum is a shrub with abundant foliage and flowers.
Key Clerodendron facts
Name: Clerodendrum
Common: Clerodendron
Family: Lamiaceae (old: Verbenaceae)
Type: shrub
Height: 6 to 10 feet (2 to 3 meters)
Exposure: full sun
Soil: rather rich – Foliage: deciduous – Flowering: summer → early fall
Proper planting, care and pruning will facilitate growth and solve small problems while growing.
For clerodendrum, planting is an important step because. Indeed, it contributes to proper settling in, growth and blooming.
Plant preferably in spring but also in fall before the first frost spells.
Clerodendron is hardy down to -5°F or -15°C, depending on the variety.
It’s possible to grow clerodendrum in a pot, especially if you intend to keep it from freezing in winter.
Preparing cuttings in summer works very well for clerodendron.
This is a particularly easy shrub to care for, especially once it has settled in well.
Regular watering is recommended, especially in case of heat waves.
Adding fertilizer in spring will have a great impact on blooming and growth.
At the end of winter, you can balance out and slightly reduce the branches.
You’ll easily keep it growing inside your home or apartment.
In winter, find a place for it where the temperature hovers around 50 to 60°F (10 to 15°C).
Native to China, Clerodendron will be most at ease in places where the winter season isn’t too harsh.
Strong and long-lasting bouts of freezing will slow the growth of the shrub.
Both ornamental and easy to care for, it offers a beautiful blooming during the summer, and produces cute little green or black berries in fall.
This shrub grows very fast and can be planted in a hedge, a shrub bed, or a pot on a balcony, deck or terrace.
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Outdoors, mulching is recommended, both in summer to keep moisture in, and in winter to protect the roots from the cold.
Four or five years ago I was given a sucker of a claradendron tritocomum. It has grown well in a pot into a good little shrub. Will it ever flower like the parent tree, which was a beautiful specimen?